Poetry Quote by Margaret Atwood — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.”

“By now you must have guessed: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, Take me to your leaders. Even I - unused to your ways though I am - would never make that mistake. We ourselves have such beings among us, made of cogs, pieces of paper, small disks of shiny metal, scraps of coloured cloth. I do not need to encounter more of them.”

“Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.”

“One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope.”

“What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very much.”

“It must have been then that I began to lose faith in reasonable argument as the sole measure of truth.”

“Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road.”

“I will go to campus alone dressed in antique silk slips and beat-up cowboy boots and gypsy beads, and I will study poetry. I will sit on the edge of the fountain in the plaza and write.”

“Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.”

“Let me remember you, soon will the winter be on us,”

“I am no longer knocking at death’s door but the path is still familiar.”

“i want to be”